(March 21, 2023 at 9:19 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Had to show that 'true believers' will do anything ordered by gawd, no matter how ridiculous.
But he already knew that all other people are bad and impossible of fixing, so watching Noah build that ark made no effect on them. I guess it is the same now.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
